A year from now…

No. Sorry, no. We don’t do that. We’re not a TV supplement. (We wish!) (No, not really.) (We mean, Christ, can you imagine?) (Shut up.)

So, basically Only Fools and Horses, inherently British, pukka, CUSHTY Only Fools & Horses has just been commissioned for a US Pilot! Well, we all saw THAT coming, didn’t we? Nine years ago.

Presumably, despite the weary efforts of The Green Green Grass, and Rock & Chips (we know, right?) that large Only Fools & Horses  shaped hole in our collective existence is still very much present. So what are we gonna do with all our problems? Make America sort it all out for bloody once, that’s for what.

It gets better. Former US Office star Steve Carrell is the fella planning on taking the lead in the whole thing too. Thank you for fixing Great Britain, Steve Carrell! Again!

‘The British do sitcoms better than anybody else in the world. [N'aww, cheers Ste! Chuffed with that. I guess there's no need for a US remake then or anything?] But I think with the right scriptwriters and cast we could do Only Fools and Horses justice. [But...] If anybody wants to help me do a remake I’d love it, [Oh. Well there goes OUR self esteem.] ‘

This is what Carrell said of the idea this time last year, like the world’s least efficient Mayan that he is.

Under the helm of the *cough* writer of Scrubs (OH COME ON) with initial rumours of appearances by Jason Biggs as a ‘potential Rodney’ here is a US remake that really could take off. The Daily Mail even has a handy key of cockney dialect translations to assist the Americans in their foray into the capers of two LAHNDAN GEEZAS wanting to be MIWIONAYRES, like some sort of American dream or something! Pah!

Manifest destiny! Woo!

We can’t wait to see the really funny interpretation of the classic ‘Del Boy falling over sequence’ or the bit where they go to a funeral but *prolapses laughing* it’s the WRONG BLADDY FUNERAL! It’ll be like that bit in American sitcom Friends, where Ross goes to the WRONG airport to try and stop the woman of his dreams leaving for France. That was really, really funny. Or so we’re told.

Still, we suspect it will be rather funny – like that time Mike Baldwin from Coronation Street couldn’t find his house! Except that was Alzheimers of course.

So! Do you think this new incarnation of Only Fools and Horses will be…cushty..? (Did we do that right? It didn’t feel very right.) Or just total and utter crap on a stick?  Give us a comment just below, if you really truly for some reason feel your opinion matters and that we might read it.

We’ll leave you with the rejected pilot from the IT Crowd. Spot the sellout!

It really is like watching an alternate universe where Community Series 3 never got cancelled.

This week’s highs and lows.

Folded:

• Tamiya’s Toyota Land Cruiser ‘Rock Crawler’ (Christmas soon…)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD (at least the production diaries doc is pretty interesting)
• Wasting time on YouTube watching the opening credits from old TV shows (you’ll look back fondly on The Big Breakfast, oh yes you will)
• A third series of The IT Crowd currently filming (and no Noel Fielding to make it all unfunny. Yey and stuff)
• How To Lose Friends and Alienate People (this’ll be our editor Stu Heritage’s biography in a couple of years, only blonde instead of ginger)

Creased:

• The new James Bond song (if someone could point us towards something resembling a chorus we’d be most grateful)
• Cobra lemongrass beer (alcopops with trendy artwank label and inflated price tag)
• Snow Patrol appear to have rebranded themselves as Del Amitri (and they sound even worse)
• Root canal surgery (this’ll ruin any Friday afternoon, trust us)
• Metallica (yep, stiiiiiilllll going…)